E. House wrote: >As a slight help, you don't have to figure out how to make umlauts with your >keyboard in order to successfully search. In general, you can replace any >umlauted vowel with vowel+e. For example, when searching for "Dürer", >"Duerer" will get you to the same set of files. "Durer", however, won't.
>The character "ß" is more annoying, but can be produced by pressing Num Lock >on your keyboard, then holding down Alt as you type 225 on the numerical >keypad (usually on the right side of your keyboard, with arrows on some of >the numbers). I've not used Bildindex myself, but doesn't that character represent double "s" in German? So if you can substitute "ue" for "u with umlaut", perhaps you can use "ss" for that one? Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
